Jay Deshpande is the author of?Love the Stranger?and?The Rest of the Body?(both from YesYes Books) and the chapbook?The Umbrian Sonnets?(PANK). His poems have appeared in?Best American Poetry 2021,?American Poetry Review,?New England Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner fellowship, a Kundiman fellowship, and residencies at Civitella Ranieri and the Saltonstall Arts Colony. His essays have been published in?Slate,?The New Republic,?Guernica, and?The Guardian. He holds degrees from Harvard and Columbia.
Writing
A Poet’s Life: On Making, On Being, On Surviving with Professor Jay Deshpande '12
A Poet’s Life is a series where we talk with Columbia poets about everything from living as a poet to making a living as a poet. Here, we talk with Assistant Professor and alumnus?Jay Deshpande?'12 about the tools of self-expression, the joys and terrors of letting a poem enter the world, and how descriptive imagery can create a means for connection.
? Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Writing
Writing Alumnus 2012